V. S. Pritchett Quotes
The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
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There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'
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We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Seventh and eighth grade? That's the worst. I think it's the lowest point of life. All I remember is painful acne and terrible clothes. And lots of getting dumped.
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It's rare that movies can sort of capture the tone of life; movies always feel like they have to be one thing or another.
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The life of the spirit may be fairly represented in diagram as a large acute-angled triangle divided horizontally into unequal parts with the narrowest segment uppermost. The lower the segment the greater it is in breadth, depth, and area.
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I've got nothing against big-budget values. I mean, I was very proud of 'The Avengers,' the part that I played in it, albeit a small one. It was thrilling to be part of it. But it's so huge that you can never really wrap your mind around it.
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I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.
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My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.
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The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
